Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Average scores for each nurse and resident were calculated for both collaboration and satisfaction , and their perceptions of alternative decision choices were assessed by asking them how much they agreed or disagreed that there was no alternative choice in the case of each specific patient .
2 Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison .
3 When seen the next morning in hospital , Pamela said she had not cared whether she lived or died when she took the overdose , but had hoped that it would show her parents how upset she was feeling about her school work , and that it might also persuade them to change their attitudes to her boyfriend .
4 consulted or asked or involved or anything like that
5 The message I draw from this is that the gay movement is not ultimately about the liberation of any particular sexuality but actually about the liberation of a whole set of relationships ; an affirmation of relationships which are sexual or non-sexual , relationships through which sexuality can be realized or transformed or denied or changed or just lived .
6 Everyone in London looks pale , delicate and emaciated or suntanned and emaciated .
7 He heard the chatter of Maude Frobisher 's typewriter in the outer office , the pattern beat that indicated that she had steam up , and with a slight secretiveness he loosened his collar and pulled down his tie and wiped a smear of the vaseline across the offending skin .
8 ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’
9 He probably tried the door to the house , found that unlocked as well and picked up the hammer in case he was disturbed . ’
10 Our results are in agreement with those of thers who found that activated and non-activated macrophages and granulocytes relax vascular smooth muscle by release of NO that is synthesised from L-arginine by a stereospecific enzyme , NO synthase .
11 It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion .
12 It jerked and looped and lurched energetically , finally landing upon an oak leaf .
13 They jerked and spasmed when they should have Red Wedged and Fred Perried .
14 There was an awkward silence between the three people then , while the music played and the dancers whooped and shouted and clapped and stamped .
15 They shouted and roared as those whom they saw as traitors sped by .
16 He shouted and raged and Felipe was not there to help me .
17 He shouted and swore when Lennie carried a dead mouse in his pocket pet and he gave Lennie a very hard time when Lennie said that he like ketchup on his beans .
18 The rain bounced and splattered and visibly stung him with its force .
19 And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't .
20 And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't .
21 He bounced and bowed and smiled , and suddenly she thought , Uncle Dimitri !
22 Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted !
23 ‘ They failed to do so , ’ said Sherrin , ‘ and Michael fretted and fumed and explained that his immense following of fans would be mortified and he would be shamed .
24 Time and again , however , I recognized the helplessness of the medical profession in the face of most of the genetic problems which I encountered and wondered if there were not some way in which more effective treatments for these diseases could be found .
25 We were informed that the Prime Minister had set aside an hour for us , and she arrived on the dot , nicely accoutred and coiffeured and saying she was ready to go when we were .
26 Cereal crops — wheat , barley , oats , rye , maize , or ‘ dredge ’ mixtures — may be grown for a variety of reasons : for the sale of grain for milling , malting , or animal feed ; for home bread-making ; for feeding one 's own livestock either threshed and rolled or on the straw ; for grazing as a green crop ; for arable silage ; for ploughing in to increase fertility ; or for the sale of thatching straw .
27 Legs rose and fell as we made our undulatory way like a giant centipede .
28 The noise was some way off , it rose and fell as the guide led his troop through the rooms of paintings .
29 He had grey hair and a black moustache which rose and fell as he breathed .
30 She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion .
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